China in the 1990s, 2nd Edition
Now updated with a chapter-length afterword by the editors on the end of the Deng era and its aftermath, this book provides a comprehensive survey of a nation in transition.
- Copyright year: 1995
Asia-Pacific Legal Development
The topics in this comprehensive volume, which offer Canadian perspectives on contemporary Asian law, include securities, prostitution, environmental, and constitutional law.
- Copyright year: 1998
The Power of Words
Literacy and Revolution in South China, 1949-95
This social and political history of the struggle for literacy in rural China shows how China's revolutionary leaders conceived and promoted literacy in the countryside and how villagers made use of the literacy education they were offered.
- Copyright year: 1998
Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945
The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu
This is the first comprehensive study of modern Japanese historians and their relationship to nationalism and how they interpreted ancient myths of their origins.
- Copyright year: 1998
Red Capitalism in South China
Growth and Development of the Pearl River Delta
- Copyright year: 1997
A Heart at Leisure from Itself
Caroline Macdonald of Japan
This book throws light on Japanese-Canadian relations in the first few decades of this century.
- Copyright year: 1997
Chinese Opera
Images and Stories
This book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country.
- Copyright year: 1997
Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar
A comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese.
- Copyright year: 1995
New Challenges for ASEAN
Emerging Policy Issues
This book examines some of the most important policy issues confronting Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) governments.
- Copyright year: 1995
Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia
The first comprehensive work on the subject of ASEAN mega-urban regions.
- Copyright year: 1995
Asia-Pacific Diplomacy
Nongovernmental Organizations and International Relations
Asia-Pacific Diplomacy traces the evolution of the Pacific economic cooperation movement by examining the diplomatic contributions of three international nongovernmental organizations
- Copyright year: 1993
Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation
in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin
The pioneering authority on Chinese historical phonetics Edwin Pulleyblank has compiled this Lexicon to present the result of his researches on the phonology of Middle Chinese and its evolution to Mandarin.
- Copyright year: 1991
Tense and Aspect in Modern Colloquial Japanese
This work lays the foundation for a systematization of aspectual categories on the basis of realized versus unrealized rather than completive and incompletive categories.
- Copyright year: 1983